On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 11:27 -0700, Bearcat M. Sandor wrote: > Couldn't one create the sound of a fly moving through out a room simply > by adjusting the balance of 4 speakers? Yes, of course, this has been in the computer music composer's toolbox for quite a number of years. For a little bit of background see (for example): http://cec.concordia.ca/eContact/Multichannel/spatial_music_short.html > If so why do we need more than 4 speakers? If you are using amplitude panning and any two speakers are more than 60 degrees apart in angle (or so) it becomes increasingly difficult to create convincing virtual images between the speakers. The virtual image tends to jump from one speaker to the other instead of smoothly panning between them (this is an extreme simplification, of course). -- Fernando _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
